Rearming Hinduism by Vamsee Juluri

Rearming Hinduism is a guide for highbrow resistance. via an astute and devastating critique of Hinduphobia in contemporary academia, media and pop culture, Vamsee Juluri exhibits us that what the Hinduphobic worldview denies virulently is not just the reality and magnificence of Hindu notion, however the very integrity and sanctity of the flora and fauna itself.

By boldly hard a number of the media age's preferred ideals approximately nature, background, and pre-history besides the Hinduphobes' traditional myths approximately Aryans, invasions, and blood-sacrifices, Rearming Hinduism hyperlinks Hinduphobia and its hubris to a predatory and self-destructive tradition that maybe just a renewed Hindu sensibility can successfully oppose. it's a name to determine the current in a manner that elevates our desa and kala to the beliefs of the sanathana dharma once more.

"For a civilization is not only constructions and machines, yet its humans, their inspiration, and their culture. it's a approach of understanding the realm, a manner of giving that means and cost to the contents of lifestyles. it's a source, so much of all, for residing intelligently."

Various an important and nonetheless such a lot proper principles approximately nothingness or vacancy have received profound philosophical prominence within the background and improvement of a few South and East Asian traditions—including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the japanese Kyoto institution.

Goddess worship has lengthy been an important element of Hinduism. during this publication David Kinsley, writer of The Sword and the Flute—Kali & Krsna: darkish Visions of the negative and the chic in Hindu Mythology, types out the wealthy but usually chaotic heritage of Hindu goddess worship.

Rearming Hinduism is a guide for highbrow resistance. via an astute and devastating critique of Hinduphobia in cutting-edge academia, media and pop culture, Vamsee Juluri indicates us that what the Hinduphobic worldview denies virulently isn't just the reality and style of Hindu notion, however the very integrity and sanctity of the wildlife itself.

It is not idle talk, nor mere internet gossip. This is what is presumed to be fact in the institutions that declare what is knowledge and what is not. This is the sort of thing that universities, and serious news media, are saying about your Hinduism. We Hindus stand accused. We Hindus stand accused of being the Nazi-like conquerors of India. We Hindus stand accused of being fundamentalists--despite having assured peace to numerous minority faiths in India for centuries, and despite having supported a secular idea of a nation even after partition.

In the government, think-tanks, or elite press. A discourse is backed by institutional power; it is therefore power. Orientalism is mostly an academic discourse, though it flourishes and proliferates through very similar strategies in media, art and literature too. Said talks about the “restorative citation of antecedent authority” as a mechanism that sustains this sort of knowledge-power nexus. It is like this. For your claim to be taken as ‘fact’ and not merely ‘opinion’, it has to pass the test of peer-review and intellectual practice and be published in a scholarly journal.

Rebuilding India is the mandate that India might have given its new leader. But rebuilding Hindu civilization is something that every one of us must be doing, one personal, meaningful vision of Hinduism at a time. It has to be done, because even our Gods and Goddesses, even our past glories, real and imagined, and most of all, even our success and pride, cannot guarantee the survival of Hinduism if we do not intellectually confront the existential challenge threatening Hinduism today. * Consider this: A prestigious university in America, a few years ago; the name of a cultural organization for students from the Indian subcontinent suddenly comes under fire.